Wednesday, April 26, 2017

THE HANDMAID'S TALE (2017) Series Trailers, Featurettes, Images and Posters

The ten-episode Hulu series "The Handmaid's Tale" starts streaming today with the first three episodes, and the rest will be released on a weekly basis on Wednesdays.

The dystopian drama is based on Margaret Atwood's novel of the same name that envisioned a society in the near future where a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship has replaced the United States. Women are subjugated and some, called Handmaids, are assigned to the elites based on their fertility.

SYNOPSIS

"Adapted from the classic novel by Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism in its militarized ‘return to traditional values'. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander’s household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate the world. In this terrifying society, Offred must navigate between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead – all with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was taken from her."